Sept. 19, 2003: Faulkner
birthday to be celebrated New books: Bleachers, by John
Grisham; On William Faulkner, by Eudora Welty

Sept. 12, 2003: Calls
for Papers: The Mississippi Encyclopedia, Faulkner in the 21st
Century New books: They Write Among Us: New Stories and Essays
from the Best of Oxford Writers, edited by Jim Dees; The Rabbit
Factory, by Larry Brown

June 13, 2003: Faulkner
Conference to examine Faulkner and the Ecology of the South
New or updated articles: William Clark Falkner, Eudora Welty
New book: Some Notes on River Country, by Eudora Welty

June 6, 2003:
Marty Stuart, Merle Haggard announce tour Shay Youngblood finishes
year as Grisham writer-in-residence New book: Of Long Memory:
Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers, by Adam Nossiter

May 30, 2003:
Marty Stuart, Merle Haggard to announce tour at Faulkner home

May 2, 2003: Jim
Hensons children buy back the Jim Henson Company New books:
Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare
Era, by John P. Bartkowski and Helen A. Regis; Splintered Bones,
by Carolyn Haines 2003 Yalobusha Review now available

April 25, 2003:
Film version of Grishams A Painted House to air on CBS
New articles: Reuben Davis, Irwin Russell, Clayton Sullivan
New books: Rescuing the Bible from Christians and Jesus &
the Sweet Pilgrim Baptist Church: A Fable, by Clayton Sullivan
Yoknapatawpha Summer Writers Workshop

April 18, 2003:
Event to raise money for Mississippi State University literary magazine

April 4, 2003: Oxford
Book Conference to celebrate Stark Young New article: Stark Young
New books: Crossed Bones, by Carolyn Haines; Sixth
Inning in Southaven, by Phil Hardwick; Escape from Heart,
by Lynette Stark Latest issue of The Southern Register
available online

March 28, 2003: Oxford
Conference for the Book scheduled for April 10-13 New article:
Marty Stuart

March 14, 2003: Poet
Beth Ann Fennelly reads at Library of Congress, on Voice of America
Mississippi State University English professor named associate
arts and sciences dean New article: George Thatcher New
books: Flashback, by Nevada Barr; Sons of Mississippi: A Story
of Race and Legacy, by Paul Hendrickson; Marvelous Old Mansions
and Other Southern Treasures, by Sylvia Higginbotham; Reflections:
Homes and History of Columbus, Mississippi, by Sylvia Higginbotham,
photography by Mark Coffey

Feb. 7, 2003: To
America: Personal Reflections of an Historian, by Stephen E. Ambrose;
Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter, by Winson
Hudson and Constance Curry; The King of Torts, by John Grisham

Jan. 31, 2003: Homesick:
A Memoir, by Sela Ward; The Shadows of God, by J. Gregory
Keyes; Three Plays by Beth Henley

Jan. 17, 2003: Oxford
American relaunches publication William Faulkner: Six
Decades of Criticism, edited by Linda Wagner-Martin; In the Land
of Dreamy Dreams, by Ellen Gilchrist; Raising Positive Kids in
a Negative World, by Zig Ziglar

Jan. 10, 2003: Ole
Miss professor wins NEA award New article: Louisa Dixon
The Return of Gabriel, by John Armistead; No Second Eden:
Poems, by Turner Cassity; Red Dragon: The Shooting Scripts,
by Ted Tally and Thomas Harris; La Salle: A Perilous Journey from
Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, by Donald Johnson

Oct. 25, 2002: Beth
Henleys mother stabbed to death William Faulkner: Six
Decades of Criticism, edited by Linda Wagner-Martin; In the Land
of Dreamy Dreams, by Ellen Gilchrist; Raising Positive Kids in
a Negative World, by Zig Ziglar

Oct. 18, 2002: Call
for Papers: Proposed edited collection on Barry Hannah The
Return of Gabriel, by John Armistead; No Second Eden: Poems,
by Turner Cassity; Red Dragon: The Shooting Scripts, by Ted Talley
& Thomas Harris; La Salle: A Perilous Odyssey from Canada to
the Gulf of Mexico, by Donald Johnson

Aug. 16, 2002: CFP:
Faulkner and Ideology CFP: Hemingway, Faulkner,
and the Great American Writer: The Sound and Fury of Competition
Faulkner and the Politics of Reading, by Karl Zender;
The Heaven of Mercury, by Brad Watson; Back to Mississippi:
A Personal Journey Through the Events that Changed America in 1964,
by Mary Winstead

Aug. 9, 2002: CFP:
Faulkner and the Ecology of the South CFP: Disclosing
the Secret in Eudora Weltys Fiction and Photography
CFP: Sideshow Wonders: Carnivals, Parades, Pageants and Fairs
in Eudora Weltys Works The Roadless Yaak: Reflections
and Observations about One of Our Last Great Wilderness Areas, edited
by Rick Bass; Last Scene Alive, by Charlaine Harris

July 19, 2002: Faulkner
Conference opens Sunday in Oxford ... Rowan oak to open temporarily
during Faulkner Conference, then close until Spring 2003 ... Tickets
to folk opera As I Lay Dying on sale to public ... Kate
Freeman Clark art exhibition to run through September ... New Orleans
Sketches, by William Faulkner, edited by Carvel Collins; Faulkner
and Postmodernism, edited by John N. Duvall and Ann J. Abadie

May 17, 2002: Time
running out for Oxford American ... Yazoo City celebrates Willie
Morris ... The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760,
edited by Robbie Ethridge and Charles Hudson; Taps, by Willie
Morris; Best of the Oxford American, edited by Marc Smirnoff
and Rick Bragg

May 3, 2002: Faulkner
work, home attract live C-SPAN broadcast May 5 ... Mississippi State
University library to exhibit art, writings of Laurie Parker ... Providence,
by Will D. Campbell; Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe,
by David Herbert Donald; Faulkner at West Point, edited by Robert
Paul Ashley and Joseph L. Fant; The Unvanquished, large print
edition, by William Faulkner

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